Central Kurdish Variety

Central Kurdish, a diverse language with numerous subdialects, is the focus of growing research in language technology. Current efforts concentrate on developing high-quality text-to-speech systems using advanced architectures like WaveGlow vocoders and end-to-end transformers, addressing the scarcity of linguistic resources for this under-resourced language. These advancements, along with ongoing work in subdialect recognition using deep learning models (RNN-LSTM, CNN, ANN) and corpus creation through diverse methods (transcribing media, fieldwork), aim to improve access to technology and resources for Central Kurdish speakers. The resulting datasets and models are increasingly being made publicly available, fostering collaboration and further research within the broader field of low-resource language technology.

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